My 2.5 year old woke up sick today. Poor thing! But, since she actually took a nap today (which I appreciated despite the circumstance) I was able to get some nature posters framed for little man’s owl-themed room. I got the posters in college at a seminar and pulled them out recently with the intention of sticking some in his room. I wasn’t crazy about the idea of poster frames or the fact that each poster had a cheesy quote at the top and a big Smokey the Bear head at the bottom so when I saw a mom on Facebook post two floating frames for $5, I snatched them up. I had never seen a floating frame before but this type essentially had a frame, a pane of glass, and a small wood insert that holds the picture in place. I was actually expecting two panes of glass to sandwich the poster which probably would have been nicer since the paper was curling from being rolled. Eventually I might modify the frames especially if the wood insert doesn’t seem to be keeping the posters in place. I picked out a poster with mushrooms and one with tree leaves and got started.
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| wood insert that holds the picture in place |
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| using the wood insert to trace out the portion of the poster to be framed |
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| snip, snip |
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| a peek at the prints! |
Baby boy is still sleeping in his room and so I’ll have to wait to get them up on the wall! It seems like everything in a house with little ones is a ten step process so I’m glad to be one step in the right direction!